Lilli, your experience together with my own observations doesn't sound all to promising for Silverado growers around here. I'm not growing mine for the foliage, so I'm already leaning towards letting it go, but I divided and replanted mine in an area with more sun and lighter soil last summer, so we shall see if it likes that better, but there will be no blooms for me this year.
Bonnie, I can see a bit of the lavender influence you are talking about in Silverado, even though mine seems to have bloomed bluer than the majority of pics in the database. Could change with warmer weather in a more normal year, we shall see.
As I'm already here confessing my love for similar light/sky blue selfs and my tendency to buy too many of them, I need to put this IB in the mix:
But who knows which color I will get here, maybe a bit darker?
If it does bloom darker, then it will compete more with Sapphire Hills
So where does that leave me, especially as IBs and TBs often bloom at nearly the same time here?
Even worse I'm also eyeing 'Ciel D'Azur' with hungry eyes
http://wiki.irises.org/Ib/IbCi...
